Bismarck weekly tribune., 1887-02-04
From An Over the Territory

Deadwood started up a -four mill jan
uary oath.
Mitchell has organized a building and
loan association.
Columbia and Aberdeen are now con-
nected by telephone.
A building association has been formed
at Lisbon with $25,OOO capital.
The worst snow blockade ever known at
Watertown ended January 26th.
A creamery association, with $4,000 cap
ital, is new association at Lisbon.
The mayor of Fargo has appointed A. U.
Judd to look after the poor of that city.
A local company has been organized at
Sioux Falls for the manufacture of buck
cts.
An artesian we'll is being bored at Par
ker, it having reached depth of about l5O
feet.
There are now seventy-three students at
the North Dakota university at Grand
Forks.
Rapid City is to have smelling works,
and $4,000 has been raised for starting the
enterprise.
The Mail for Darlington and other Offices
on the jamestown & Northern is now car
ried by stage.
Prof. w, F. Corrie, principal of the
Watertown schools for three years, has re-
signed his position.
The Seventh Day Adventists have con-
! ference in Dakota of twenty-five churches,
with membership of 800.
1t is reported that the material for start
ing another newspaper at Highmore has
been shipped from Chicago.
Workmen have. begun to rebuild the
Northern Pacific machine shops at Fargo,
which were recently burned.
The Cass County Medical society wants
!. the present health law repealed and an
other like the Illinois law passed.
Grand Forks county now supports eighty
six paupers on money allowances. 1t will
vote February upon proposition to buy
poor farm.
A four months old town is Deloraine, a
few miles north of BOttineau. 1t has over
hundred houses, seven stores, four hotels
and six stables.
Mouse river stockmen report cattle thriv-
ing finely, notwithstanding the extreme
cold. Hay in liberal quantities is being
fed, and the stock is in excellent condi-
ton.
/ A great deal of sickness is reported in
Ipswich and vicinity at present, the fever
which prevailed to such an extent during
the summer and fall having broken out
again.
The Missouri snag boat, H. G. Wright, ex-
| tracted $40 snags weighing 6659 tons last
year. About $4,000 can be comfortably
! expended between Sioux City and Fort
Benton this year. -.
An eightrfoot vein of bituminous coal of
excellent quality has been opened in Bur
| lington, Ward county. A side track is
being laid to the mine and shipments will
begin Immediately. 1t costs at the mine $2
| per ton.
| A Madison man blew out the gas in a
hotel at Sioux Falls last week, and had the
transOm over his door not been left open,
he would have been suffocated. He came
| very near it, as it was.
The 127th anniversary of the birth OF
Robert Burns was observed by the Yank.
ton public school children, Tuesday after.
noon, january 25th, by readings and recita
tiOnS from his works.
A grocer of Mitchell has put up sheC
in connection with his store to accommo
dats his country customers. He has accom-
modatiOns for 100 horses, where they cal
be we'll sheltered, fed and watered.> A
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for the teams.
Kate Bardell, a school teacher of York
town, Dickey county, returning from ;
during the blizzard, was frozen to dealt
after wandering over five miles out of th'
way. Her body was not found until las
Thursday.
The Fargo Insurance company of Siou!
Falls is sure to 90 under. The presen
stockholders of the company went into
under misunderstanding as to the eXten
Of its liabilities. They understood them tt
be $4,000 which they paid up; they nov
find claims for S11O, 900 more.
It is said that the Northern Pacific di
rectOrs have under consideration the eX
tension of the jamestown & Northern
D Turtle mountains. The extension, if made
2 will be for the purpose of developing Goa
mines recently discovered in the noun
tains.
= A gentleman of Nebraska took theat
. rical troupe into the Black Hills, where
was disbanded. the girls all paying th
manager $3.50 each to be released that the
might accept offers of marriage. Th
, manager is now picking up another troup
. which will give its first entertainment il
y w. j. Fitch and sixteen others of Fare
e have sent petition to congress settin
4 forth that the manufacturers tax upon olet
margarine ought not to exceed two cen1
compelled to take out license for a YET
if he only wants it for one or two month
II Commissioner Sparks has cancelled til
~ homestead entry for the land upo
It which the townsite of Lakota
located. j. II. Mclaughlin, in
mediately upon learning the fact, file
upon the land and subsequently the oril
o inal claimant filed again. There was
. good deal of excitement over the matter.
Twelve new actions have been begun h
Highmore parties against the Chicago
Northwestern railway company, and eigl
judgments taken. The most of these al
l. for damages sustained by fire alleged
Is have been started by the negligence Of I'll
n defendant several years ago. This max.